Two classic albums by iconic jazz organist Jimmy Smith are returning to vinyl through Verve’s Acoustic Sounds series. First up is The Cat, a notable
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Landmark albums by Andrew Hill and the Jazz Crusaders are all set for reissue as part of Blue Note Records’ on-going Tone Poet Series. Andrew
Like John Coltrane before him, Wayne Shorter was a key figure in popularizing the soprano saxophone, an instrument equally suited to carrying a melody as
From the mid-1960s to the early ’70s, Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 specialized in a hugely successful strand of bossa nova-informed sophisti-pop. Their signature sound,
What American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald described as the Jazz Age coincided with the demise of silent movies and the birth of talking pictures in
The second of two albums compiled from recordings made at the celebrated New York jazz club Village Vanguard, State Of The Tenor: Live At The
Tribute albums have been inspiring musicians and delighting fans for decades. In 1950, only a couple of years after the first 33rpm LPs were made,
For most of the citizens in the Bay Area city of Palo Alto, October 27, 1968, may have seemed just like another Sunday, but at
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie didn’t just co-lead a musical revolution. He did it with style. While alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was said to perform “as though
There was a time when Anita O’Day’s name was synonymous with scandal. Thanks to drug busts and resulting jail time, the jazz singer was dubbed